Last week in my newsletter, I asked folks who their favorite female sleuth is. The responses came in for days!
If you love a good female sleuth, check out the recommended list below.
The Top Four Choices with the most mentions:
- Kinsey Millhone
- Miss Marple
- Jessica Fletcher
- Nancy Drew
And the rest of the list:
- Aurora Teagarden
- Stephanie Plum
- Agatha Raisin
- Temperance Brennan
- Joanna Brady
If you like Cat Mysteries, try these:
- Peggy Winn from Scotshop series
- Sarah Grayson of the second Chance Cat series
- Darla Pettistone from Black Cat Bookshop
- Kathleen Paulson of Magical Cats
- Minnie Hamilton from the Bookmobile Cat series
- The unnamed protagonist of the Cats and Curios series
- Emma Cross of the Gilded Newport Mysteries by Alyssa Maxwell. Set in the 1890s, Emma is a poor relative of the Vanderbilts who is fiercely independent, supporting herself as a journalist
- Cait from Kathi Daley’s Whales and Tails series. She works with a “magic” cat in each book to solve the mystery
- Librarian Lucy Richardson and feline Charles for Charles Dickens.
- Minnie Hamilton with feline rescue cat Eddie
- Septuagenarian sleuth librarian Cleo Watkins with her cat
- Rhett Butler in a Bookmobile Mystery series
- And then there’s:
- Michelle Cox
- V.I. Warshawski
- Siobhan O’Sullivan
- Detective Jo Wyatt
- Ellery Hathaway
- Robbie Jordan
- Gemma Doyle
- Merry Wilkinson
- Lucy Richardson
- Tricia Miles
- Stephanie Plum got a few mentions, as did Mrs. Polifax
- And for a few more…
- CIA Assassin Fortune Redding and her sidekicks Gertie and Ida Belle
- Spy Charlotte Mission and her retired spy grandmother, Georgina Mission
- Lady Eleanor Swift
- Beryl and Edwina
- Lilly Jayne and her Garden Squad
- Mercy Carr
- Pepper Reece
- Jazz Ransey
- Lucy Lancaster, of Ancestry Investigations
- Annie Darling
- The indomitable Amelia Peabody
- there is now septuagenarian sleuth librarian Cleo Watkins with her cat
- Rhett Butler in a Bookmobile Mystery series by Nora Page.
- A new sleuth on the scene is Helen Morrisey
- Helen Morrisey, real estate agent, widow, mother of adult twins, animal
- lover, and an extraordinary friend.
- A new sleuth on the scene is Helen Morrisey making her debut with first
- cozy mystery publication, “Murder in the Master: A Chesapeake Bay
- Mystery” by Judy L. Murray and I hope she’s planning on a long series.
- Helen Morrisey, real estate agent, widow, mother of adult twins, animal
- lover, and an extraordinary friend. Helen is also a devoted mystery
- lover with favorites of Nancy Drew, Agatha Raisin, Nora Charles, Jessica
- Fletcher, and Miss Marple. As the author is a realtor this cozy has
- authenticity that rings true in language when talking to any realtor.
- Arly Hanks
- Georgiana Rannoch
- Phryne Fisher
- Eve Dallas
- Temperance Brennan
- Joanna Brady
You’ll have to search the sleuth’s name to find the books they go in. Good luck, and happy reading!illhone